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Submission + - Nokia X6 Unlocked GSM Phone (blogspot.com)

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Yanst3r
Yanst3r writes: "A powerful entertainment and on-the-go social networking device, the Nokia X6 features a lush 3.2-inch widescreen capacitive touch display, 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash, integrated GPS with free Ovi Maps Navigation, and 16 GB of internal memory. You’ll have tons of space to save your pictures, music, video clips, and data, and you can always grab more games and applications downloaded from the Ovi Store. The Nokia X6 provides one-touch access to your music, social networks and messaging, and the Ovi Store. The 5-megapixel camera offers excellent Carl Zeiss optics and DVD-quality video capture...."
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Submission + - Rendering PDFs in JavaScript (blogspot.com)

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theweatherelectric writes: With the release of Emscripten 1.0, Mozilla's Alon Zakai has put together a demo which renders PDF documents in JavaScript. He writes, 'I released Emscripten 1.0 over the weekend, which came with a demo of rendering PDFs entirely in JavaScript (warning: >12MB will be downloaded for that page). Emscripten is an LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler which allows running code written in C or C++ on the web. In the linked demo, Poppler and FreeType were compiled to JavaScript from C++.'

Submission + - Scientists aim to improve photosynthesis (cam.ac.uk)

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vasanth writes: "Two new initiatives at the University of Cambridge aim to address the growing demand on the Earth’s resources for food and fuel by improving the process of photosynthesis.

Four transatlantic research teams – two of which include academics from Cambridge’s Department of Plant Sciences – will explore ways to overcome limitations in photosynthesis which could then lead to ways of significantly increasing the yield of important crops for food production or sustainable bioenergy.

Despite the fact that photosynthesis is the basis of energy capture from the sun in plants, algae and other organisms, it has some fundamental limitations. There are trade-offs in nature which mean that photosynthesis is not as efficient as it could be – for many important crops such as wheat, barley, potatoes and sugar beet, the theoretical maximum is only 5%, depending on how it is measured. There is scope to improve it for processes useful to us, for example increasing the amount of food crop or energy biomass a plant can produce from the same amount of sunlight."

Submission + - A CO2 to oil process (wattsupwiththat.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (03/23/2011) —University of Minnesota researchers are a key step closer to making renewable petroleum fuels using bacteria, sunlight and carbon dioxide, a goal funded by a $2.2 million United States Department of Energy grant.

Comment Re:Timeline (Score 1) 578

by mAineAc (#31300494) Attached to: What Is Time? One Researcher Shares His Exploration
I was in a very bad accident about 20 years ago. I was in a motorcycle accident and went headfirst into a railroad track without a helmet. I was pretty messed up for quite a while. I was in a coma for 5 days in the hospital. I had an experience from this that I thought couldn't possibly have happened to anyone else before and after some research it has happened a few times. I felt that in that five days I was in that coma that I had lived my whole life, then woke up. After this I messed up for a long time, on top of that I quit drinking, smoking, drugs and even went vegetarian. But during the first several years after this accident I was experiencing deja vu all the time. I had a condition that they called chronic deja vu. I don't know if it had a more scientific name or not. But everything I did, everywhere I went I knew I did it before. This was every day this was happening to me all day. It was really freaky living like that. I couldn't tell what was going to happen, but everything I did, I knew I already did it. It is now over 20 years later and I still experience times of strong deja vu, but it doesn't affect me like it used to. I am pretty sure that I did not live my whole life during those 5 days while I was in a coma, I do question time all the time and wonder if it was possible. I always wanted to get hypnotized or something to be regressed to that time to see if anything funky happens or if I might have some insight into my future.

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